Natural World Quotes - Page 11

• Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Democracy, Fundamentals, World

  Source: collider.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity.

  Derrick Jensen

  Suicide, Children, Mean

  Derrick Jensen (2004). “Listening to the Land: Conversations about Nature, Culture and Eros”, p.1, Chelsea Green Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is not just contemporary industrial society that is dysfunctional; it is civilization itself. We humans are born to be creatures of the land and the sea and the stars; we are relations to the animals, cohorts to the plants. Our well being, and the well-being of the very planet depend on our pursuance of our given place within the natural world.

  Chellis Glendinning

  Stars, Animal, Sea

  15 Copy quote

• If there is something that appears to lie beyond the natural world as it is now imperfectly understood, we hope to eventually understand it and embrace it within the natural. As ever when we unweave a rainbow, it will not become less wonderful.

  Richard Dawkins

  Lying, Rainbow, World

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

  Thomas McGuane

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  20 Copy quote

• Science is a limited way of knowing, looking at just the natural world and natural causes. There are a lot of ways human beings understand the universe - through literature, theology, aesthetics, art or music.

  Eugenie Scott

  Art, Knowing, Atheism

  "PROFILE / EUGENIE SCOTT / Berkeley scientist leads fight to stop teaching of creationism" by Monica Lam, www.sfgate.com. February 7, 2003.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• All things in the natural world symbolize God, yet none of them speak of Him but in broken and imperfect words.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Nature, Broken, World

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.8

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reconnection to the natural world is fundamental to human health, well-being, spirit, and survival.

  Richard Louv

  Survival, Fundamentals, World

  Richard Louv (2012). “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age”, p.3, Algonquin Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Whatever the advantages of the machine may be - and they are many - the very ease of its use is bound to make away with intimacy - the intercourse of human beings, of animals, or of that which we still think of as the natural world.

  Freya Stark

  Animal, Technology, Thinking

  Freya Stark (1969). “The zodiac arch”

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• The world of dance is a natural world from which civilization has divorced many of us by making it appear remote - something reserved for the few who have a special talent.

  Margot Fonteyn

  Dance, Civilization, Special

  29 Copy quote

• In I Praise My Destroyer, Diane Ackerman demonstrates once again her love for the specific language that rises from the juncture of self and the natural world, and her skillful use of that language. Whether she turns her attention to the act of eating an apricot 'the color of shame and dawn,' or to 'the omnipotence of light,' or to grief when 'All the greens of summer have blown apart,' her linking of unique images, her energetic wit and whimsy, her compassionate investment in life, always bring new pleasures and perceptions to the reader.

  Pattiann Rogers

  Summer, Grief, Unique

  4 Copy quote

• The aboriginal peoples of Australia illustrate the conflict between technology and the natural world succinctly, by asking, 'What will you do when the clever men destroy your water?' That, in truth, is what the world is coming to.

  Winona LaDuke

  Clever, Technology, Men

  8 Copy quote

• The spiritual world is not unlike the natural world: only diversity will save it.

  Margot Adler

  Spiritual, Diversity, World

  20 Copy quote

• In every one of these haunting and hungry poems, Howell draws a map for how to enter the heat and dew of the human being, naked and facing the natural world, desperate to feel. I did not realize while reading Render how deeply I was handing everything over.

  Nikky Finney

  Reading, Dew, Naked

  10 Copy quote

• A natural historian is somebody who looks at something in terms of its relationship to the rest of the natural world. You look at things ecologically. When you see a cow on a feedlot, you don't just see a cow; you see a cow that is eating certain food. You follow that food and that food takes you back to a corn field.

  Michael Pollan

  Looks, World, Cows

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• People forget that eating represents their most profound engagement with the natural world. Through agriculture is how we change the world, more than anything else we do.

  Michael Pollan

  Agriculture, People, Profound

  Source: leitesculinaria.com

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• No circumstance in the natural world is more inexplicable than the diversity of form and color in the human race.

  Mary Somerville

  Race, Color, Diversity

  Mary Somerville (1854). “Physical Geography: By Mary Somerville ...”, p.479

  36 Copy quote

  Show source

• And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word 'natural.' This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What 'natural' has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is 'pure' and 'safe' and 'benign'. But the use of 'natural' as a synonym for 'good' is almost certainly a product of our profound alienation from the natural world.

  Eula Biss

  Powerful, Mean, Intelligent

  4 Copy quote

• I'll admit that the discovery of evolution is humbling, but it is also empowering. It transforms our relationship to the life around us. Instead of being outsiders watching the natural world go by, we are insiders. We are part of the process; we are the exquisite result of billions of years of natural research and development.

  Bill Nye

  Discovery, Years, Research And Development

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.4, St. Martin's Press

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

  Bill Nye

  World, Facts, Natural

  102 Copy quote

• I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Age, World, Married

  8 Copy quote

• After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.

  Linda Jones

  Running, Jobs, Sunday

  4 Copy quote

• The ultimate design is little different from the natural world.

  Kenji Ekuan

  Design, Different, World

  8 Copy quote

• The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

  C.P. Snow

  Two, World, Natural

  C. P. Snow, Stefan Collini (2012). “The Two Cultures”, p.67, Cambridge University Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's time to reconnect to the natural world for the sake of the animals, and our collective conscience. Because without spiritual health there can be no physical health.

  Gary Yourofsky

  Spiritual, Animal, World

  Source: www.all-creatures.org

  15 Copy quote

  Show source